Comments on: mort de rire?

By: Hope

Hope — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 17:36:34 +0000

Petite you are positively educational! My French class the other week was all about verlan etc so I’m going to take your extract and translation in this week as a “live” example if that’s OK. Mind, I did think that perhaps getting us to communicate in standard French first might be more achieveable than expecting us to be able to do it backwards…

By: EasyJetsetter

EasyJetsetter — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:42:04 +0000

I know I am being the hippie linguist, but honestly, there's no such thing as language "dying" just changing. This article deals with this issue a little - but really, you are all living proof that there are articulate people writing on the web.

By: petite

petite — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:49:38 +0000

I think I would have had to register with skyblog in order to comment. And I’m probably too old.

By: sammy

sammy — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:37:43 +0000

C’mon petite, DON’T try to make me believe that you didn’t submit your name to the grafitti site!
;)

By: petite

petite — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:42:46 +0000

Céline - they did, but I thought google had taken comments out of the equation recently, to help take action against comment spam throwing out their search results. Having said that, it doesn't seem to have worked. In response to my post about search terms recently, crinkly bee mentioned "Barry from Eastenders hair" as a search term on his site. And I've had several searches a day arriving chez moi for that very search term ever since. Am I missing something, or is it the new 'in' cut at Toni & Guy?

By: petite

petite — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:33:27 +0000

I think I prefer Tadpole's 'graffiti'.

By: céline

céline — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:33:23 +0000

Well it’s not just teenagers who spam each others’ blogs. I once had a colleague post a comment with only the link to her site and about a hundred “keywords” (great translator, good translator, excellent translator, great translations, good translations, blah blah) – do spiders (or whatever their latest incarnation is called) actually crawl blog comments for keywords?

By: vit

vit — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:23:04 +0000

is it only me, or is that graffitti site the most despressing site ever? yuk yuk yuk yuk yukkkity yuk.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:46:30 +0000

Hello petite, have been meaning to post a comment for a while now. I love your blog and check it religiously every day. It’s the only blog I feel is worth reading, perhaps because our situations are so similar. I’m an expat who’ been living in Switzerland for the last 12 years with a 3 year old son, and your observations on expat life and bringing up a toddler are spot on. The similarities don’t stop there, I went to York universtiy and lived there after graduation for six months before moving here. Oh yeah, and I also had a French pen pal. Mine went on to become an enard and gradauated second in his year and is now a Consiel d’Etat working in Paris. Grrrr, can’t think about him without massive feelings of inadequacy. On the other hand, he’s just separated from his wife and two kids, so that’s all right then.

Since my wife isn’t Swiss I’m now facing a dillema. To integrate or not to integrate? Should I send our son to a Swiss school. It’s not really fair to him to put him in an international school if we’re going to be staying, but on the other hand I don’t want him to learn to be a swissie. Yes, I admit it, living here for so long has giving me a healthy dislike of the Swiss. In fact I was toying with starting my own blog, Why I hate the Swiss, but I fear it would take up all of my time. There’s just so much to hate :)

Anyways, keep up the good work, and don’t worry about tadpole by the sound of it you’re doing everything right.

Cheers, Vinny

By: janna

janna — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:08:27 +0000

So Skyblog is the francophone Livejournal? Ick.

Dooce’s comments are simultaneously hilarious and disturbing: Some of those “first!” comments have dreadfully early timestamps, and while I do acknowledge the existance of different time zones, I have this mental image of hunched-shoulder, red-eyed zombie-bloggers frantically hitting refresh at four in the morning, hoping for a spot in that elusive top ten.

Oh, and not all teenage bloggers write like that.